Pakistan: Nuclear Helpers

Belgium Supplied New Labs plutonium extraction plant Canada Supplied Kanupp power reactor including fuel and spare parts until 1976 China Supplied a tested bomb design and high-enriched uranium fuel Supplied…

Pakistan’s A-Bomb Potential

The high-enriched uranium produced at the Kahuta gas centrifuge plant near Islamabad is suitable for bombs and free from international controls. International inspectors are not allowed to visit Kahuta, so…

Pakistan: The Path to High-Enriched Uranium

In the early 1970s, Pakistan began shopping for the equipment needed to convert the uranium found in nature to nuclear weapon grade, a process known as enrichment. By using imports…

Pakistan Needs Help to Make Plutonium and Tritium

Pakistan is building a secret reactor that closely resembles the reactor India used to make its first atomic bomb, a U.S. official says. The former head of Pakistan’s Atomic Energy…

Asia’s Nuclear Nightmare: The German Connection

The Washington Post June 10, 1990, p. C1 Despite the summit’s rosy afterglow, the risk of nuclear war is higher now than at any time in the past decade —…